Longstanding leadership continued in global embedded software market

Given this competitive environment, it is exciting to share that once again Wind River topped both the real-time operating systems (RTOS) and commercial Linux markets based on revenue market share according to the latest findings from VDC Research.

VDC’s report, ‘The Global Market for IoT and Embedded Operating Systems’ covers the global market for commercially available RTOSes, non-real-time operating systems and other related bundled products and services. According to VDC, Wind River maintained its longstanding position as the traditional RTOS market leader based on global revenue of flagship VxWorks and related services.

Also, for the eighth year running, Wind River has led the commercial embedded Linux market with our Wind River Linux platform, commanding more than 50% revenue share. The report cites our more recently released Wind River Pulsar Linux offering, as well as the work with the Linux Foundation.

In addition, a key finding of this year’s report is that automotive market advances will largely fuel growth. In support of this trend, the report highlights Wind River’s aggressive expansion in the connected car space with the 2016 roll out of our comprehensive Wind River Helix Chassis framework.

Roy Murdock, Research Associate, VDC Research said: “The market-wide shift towards the IoT cloud services platform is challenging the embedded technology ecosystem to evolve accordingly. Wind River’s perennial market leadership is a testament to its constant innovation as well as its broad product and service portfolio that meets the needs of multiple industries and diverse applications.”

Within the embedded industry Wind River offers the edge-to-cloud-software portfolio of software, tools and services, including the VxWorks family of products that deliver all the scalability, safety, security, and virtualisation capabilities needed to meet today’s development challenges for building intelligent, connected systems. And a Linux product line of specialised run-time features and software tools, customised to address key technology areas and industry-specific needs, including solutions for carrier-grade, open virtualisation, security and automotive requirements.

The combination of product portfolio, safety-and-security DNA, and unmatched cross-industry critical systems expertise have us well positioned to help companies make the most of this emergent ‘software-defined world.’

Krutz commented: “I’m proud of our enduring achievement of topping the global embedded software market, which reflects our ability to get in front of and meet the needs of the rapidly evolving IoT market landscape.”

He added: “As we look to 2017, Wind River will continue to both draw on our rich heritage of more than 30 years in the embedded software market and make ongoing investments to ensure our customers’ success and our continued leadership.”

Courtesy of Wind River.